Musaeus of Marseilles

Apparently a prolific writer,[2] he was also an esteemed preacher whose sermons were read for edification.

[3] We know that he put together a lectionary for Venerius, bishop of Marseilles, around 450 CE, and that he also prepared a responsorial and a sacramentary.

[3] In a passage of his De Viris Illustribus, Gennadius described him thusly: Musaeus, priest of the church of Marseilles, a man learned in the Divine Scripture and refined by the most subtle exercise of its interpretation, schooled, also in the language, selected, at the urging of the holy bishop Venerius, readings from the Holy Writings appropriate to the feast days of the entire year and responsorial psalms (responsoria psalmorum capitula) appropriate to the season and to the readings.

[6] He also addressed to Eustathius, the successor of Venerius, an "excellent and sizable Book of Sacraments, divided into various sections according to the offices and time, according to the text of the reading, sequence of the psalms, and chanting, but proper for praying to God and asking for the multitude of His favours.

[6] It is probable that this work "at least contained directions for the divine office rather than prayers for the mass".